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An iceberg the size of Cyprus is on a collision course with South Georgia, posing a major threat to the remote Atlantic island’s globally important penguin and seal colonies.
Icebergs breaking off from Antarctica often break up in the South Atlantic, earning the region the nickname of the “iceberg graveyard”. But the sheer scale of this 158 kilometre-long and 48km-wide one, named A68a, is unusual, say researchers following it by satellite.
The ice is tracking a route that historically ends at South Georgia. Travelling …
source: newscientist.com